Ch 9/12 Podcast Assignment (GS)

• Due Saturday by 10pm
• Points 100
• Submitting a text entry box, a media recording, or a file upload

This week’s assignment is to complete one of the following based on topics from Chapter 9 and 12.

1. Develop your own podcast for your company on the following choices (1-3) or the topics below. Please save as an MP3 or MP4 file. AudacityLinks to an external site. is a free program you may want to use to create your podcast and then save as a MP3 or MP4 file. Or you can create a youtube video. Don’t know how to create a youtube video? Google it – there some great how to videos: Part 1 and Part 2 of How to create a youtube video from 2011 – is good.
2. Submit a written document (could be the outline or script of your podcast) and a reference list. You may use powerpoint if that is easier to present from.

Choose one of the 3 ways to complete this assignment:

1. Develop a new program for your company on one of the topics.
2. Develop new processes/guidelines to a program on one of the topics exists in your company. You will need to submit your company’s current program so I can assess the direction and changes you have made.
3. You are starting a hospitality company and want to develop a corporate culture from Day One. Describe this culture and how it will be intertwined through the recruitment, interviewing, selection, orientation, training, and performance evaluation processes. Give an example of how you will present this culture in Employee Orientation.

Post your topic selection to the Ch 9/12 Podcast discussion by Tuesday of Week 6 at noon. I will confirm you choice by 5 pm. Your assignment is due Saturday of Week 6.

I am including a podcast on each of the topics below – most of them are radio broadcasts. The links are attached here and the audio files will be on the instructions to the Podcast #4 assignment. There are a lot of topics covered in Chapters 9 and 12. If there is a different topic you are interested in than the ones I have presented – you will need to get that topic okayed by me before you start your assignment.

Topics from Chapter 9:
Create an exit and stay interview process for your company.
Build an employee engagement process or program
Develop an employee mentoring program

Topics from Chapter 12:
Corporate Culture
Employee Recognition

CHAPTER 9 PODCASTS

How to Conduct Exit and Stay InterviewsLinks to an external site.

• The definition and purpose of an exit and stay interview
• Questions that should be asked in an exit interview
• Who conducts each type of interview
• Communication of results
• How to develop a process around the exit and stay interview

Build Employee Engagement (Some of these podcasts are over 5-7 years old, but will give you ideas how the topic has grown since these podcasts were published.)

In this podcastLinks to an external site., Jill shares the tips she crafted in a guest blog post for the management website switchandshift.com (This is not downloadable.)

Is employee engagement just a buzz word?Links to an external site.

Great Workplaces: Trust, Engagement, Simplification, and Millennials.Links to an external site.

Employee Engagement: What You Need to Know: Links to an external site.It’s in the moments of making the right decisions at the right times that leaders can make a positive, constructive impact on employees and the organization. Many leaders are finding that their employees are not active or happy participants in the greater purpose of the organization.

Optimizing Your Engagement Process: Links to an external site.The movement for employee engagement. Committed to the idea that there is a better way to work, a better way to enable personal and organisational growth.

Secrets of Optimizing Talent in the WorkplaceLinks to an external site.
HR Trends with Game Changers, Presented by SAP: Is your HR team working hard to streamline and strengthen your talent management, but too often seeing disappointing results?

Re-Engaging People and Workplaces: Links to an external site.Re-Engage with Best Selling author Leigh Branham & his co-author Mark Hirschfeld on Real Recognition Radio. Addressing their book Re-Engage: How America’s best Places to work inspire extra effort in extraordinary times, Leigh and Mark will tell how to keep your best people engaged, and relay their recent research findings of companies identified as “Best Places to Work”. Learn the six universal drivers of employee engagement and what gets in the way of leaders valuing employee contributions. Real Recognition Radio is going to help you get your employees engaged so you can create a positive and productive workplace environment! By discovering the roots of turnover, employee disengagement, absenteeism and presenteeism, guests Mark and Leigh will be showing you how to hold on to your most precious resource, your employees.

What is Mentoring? Mentoring vs. CoachingLinks to an external site.

CHAPTER 12 PODCAST

Nick’s Pizza and Pub: Creating Great Corporate Culture One Slice at a TimeLinks to an external site.
How does one take a standard industry turnover rate of 150% and reduce it to less than 30? On this episode of Real Recognition Radio you’ll learn what it means to “create great corporate culture one slice at a time” with founder and CEO of Nick’s Pizza & Pub Nick Sarillo. He will share his secrets on how the successful creation of a deep corporate culture engenders an environment with a strong sense of belonging, with high morale and high productivity. Tune in and learn how embedding recognition in corporate culture results in success! Download mp3 or listen through iTunes.

Employee Recognition
Smart companies and leaders are figuring out that rewards and recognition programs have a lasting impact on employees. From a small thank you to quick feedback on a job well done, recognition can improve employee engagement and productivity, as well as help retain top talent. All of which can improve the bottom line

Requirements: TBD